[ent]»e-learning big for India»

With e-learning market valued at $28 billion by 2008, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu global director Nick van Dam sees a major opportunity for India.

Nanda Kasabe

CHENNAI: The $16.4 billion Deloitte, delivering audit, tax, consulting and financial advisory services worldwide and serving more than one-half of the world’s largest companies is scaling operations in India.

Chief global learning officer for Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and global director in Deloitte’s change learning and leadership practice, Nick van Dam believes that there would be exponential growth in e-learning by the year 2008, which presents a major opportunity for India.

Nick van Dam was in Pune to meet the company’s partner Maximize Learning and create awareness about e-Learning.

How would you define e-learning? Do you see e-learning playing a significant role in the enterprise?

I would term e-learning as net-enabled learning targeted to achieve business goals. The enterprise is a significant user of e-learning as a tool since it is faster, better and cheaper. Companies spend millions of dollars on training and e-learning reduces the overall training costs by 30 percent to 40 percent. It also reduces training time by as much as 50 percent on the same subject and decreases time-to-market of new skills globally. More courseware is available at significantly less costs. It has been noticed there is a 25 percent to 50 percent higher retention of knowledge due to e-learning. (leer más…)

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